VacationSelector

Bodrum or Budapest?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bodrum
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BodrumBudapest
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 77 points.77
BodrumBudapest
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km306
Coast distance0 km10,000 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 27 points.27
BodrumBudapest
Score5077
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4441,699
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2035
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 44 points.44
BodrumBudapest
Score2064
Museums within 10 km5144
Museums within 2 km of centre464
Share of museums within 2 km %8044
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 27 points.27
BodrumBudapest
Score4572
Drinking venues within 4 km4181,765
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3341,168
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8066
Nightclubs within 4 km6097
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 21 points.21
BodrumBudapest
Score1940
Protected land share 50 km %58
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %35100
Park area within 2 km3 hectares111 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 49 points.49
BodrumBudapest
Score2271
Tourist attractions within 2 km1575
Park area within 2 km3 hectares111 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 51 points.51
BodrumBudapest
Score1869
Notable places within 2 km11206
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 9 points.9
BodrumBudapest
Score8980
Price level global35.248
Daily budget€100€104
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 13 points.13
BodrumBudapest
Score7764
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C3.6 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm27 mm to 75 mm
Dry months55
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Bodrum
14
15
17
20
24
28
31
31
28
24
19
16
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre). Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumBudapest
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
2 h 0 m
€97-179
BUD · 18 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-73
BJV · 32 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 50 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€190-240
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 0 m
€58-94
BUD · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 5 m
€232-285
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 35 m
€229-250
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 45 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBodrumBudapest
Official languageTurkishHungarian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Forint (HUF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m117 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumBudapest
City population175,0001,685,209
People per km²3143,209
Museums within 10 km481
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3086
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.